Gas prices at the pump in the Midwest are more volatile than most regions, but this summer, don’t expect the already-high price in Michigan to go much higher, experts say.

However, a wild card could be the growing crisis in Iraq, which is pushing oil prices up even though the country’s oil supplies have not been affected.

“We saw what may have been a peak nationwide in the last week of April or first week of May,” said Gregg Laskoski, a senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com, a website that tracks gas prices across the country.

“Michigan, like the rest of the Great Lakes region, has a totally different retail pricing environment.

Same old crap, different day when it comes to price increase excuses from speculator vultures. Meanwhile, the roller coaster ride of fuel prices under Oblamer continues amid all his lies, coverups, scandals, failed economic & foreign policies, abuses of power, gross incompetence, & major campaign contributions from Big Oil/Utilities. Working class taxpayers continue to be screwed at the pump, with our utilities, & with our taxes while Oblamer pushes his tree hugging, stimulus sucking, union dominated, out of control spending, ultra liberal agenda at our expense. Stop this madness in Nov 14 & start taking our country back before it's too late!

If they were, they would show all the efficiency of the Post Office or the VA. The price would probably have to go up to the $8 a gallon Senator Obummer said he wanted before he got elected Resident of the White House.